[Sept/Oct] – Recent App Round-Up

Posted on October 17th, 2008. Written by Arron.

With the recent removal of the ‘All iPhone Applications’ and ‘Most Recent’ search features on the App Store, it can now be quite a task to find recent, decent applications. This was precisely one of the reasons for Arnold Kim launching App Shopper a few weeks back.

However, I’d like to take a few minutes to look at some applications which have caught my eye, and that I think you may just have missed …

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Weightbot [App Store] (£1.19)

Described by the developers as “a robot who helps you lose weight”, Weightbot boasts one of the best user interfaces I’ve seen on an iPhone app so far. In fact, I bet people would be tempted to buy this app just on it’s look, and because of this, Weightbot is very easy to use too:

• Scroll to the day you want to set

• Press the LCD screen to toggle the weight selector

• Scroll to the weight you want to record

• Press the LCD again to record your weight

• Shake when in date view to delete entry

• Rotate 90 degrees to view your graph

Tapbots (http://tapbots.com/) are a fairly new company to the App Store, which apparently offer “Robots for your iPhone & iPod Touch”.

Can’t wait to see whats next form these guys.

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Loopy Laboratory [App Store] (£3.99)

Did anyone ever play Chips Challenge? – it was incredibly addictive back in the days, and this may just be a reincarnation of it.

“Loopy Laboratory is a game about a girl called Lara. She’s been locked away in the laboratory of the evil Dr. Heissenbad. It is your job to help Lara escape the Laboratory and reach safety.

Dr. Heissenbad laboratory is divided into 50 unique rooms, each filled with deadly traps and mind-bending puzzles.”

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Vektrax [App Store] (£0.59)

As you probably have already seen, the variety of applications hitting the store is phenomenal. Vektrax released just 3 hours ago uses the accelerometer to blast you through numerous racing tracks. Ok, it possibly wouldn’t win awards regarding it’s graphics, but for 0.59 – I certainly won’t complain.

iIt also reminds me a bit of WipeOut Pure (http://www.wipeoutpure.com/) for Sony’s PlayStation Portable.

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Photo Lab [App Store] (£1.79)

Last year, photo editing for your iPhone or iPod touch was near impossible on the actual devices themselves. The introduction of the App Store has brought a slurry of photo editing options, some of which are better than others. Although not the best we’ve seen, Photo Lab offers that of a different UI than previous offerings.

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Gobble [App Store] (Free)

An alternative to Namco’s £4.99 Pacman [App Store], Gobble developed by Curt Stein works on the same principles. Chomp the dots and avoid the enemies.

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BugDom 2 [App Store] (£2.39)

Developed by successful App Store presence Pangea Software, this is no doubt the best adventure title available for iPhone to date. Excelling graphics, great story – cheap.

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LED Basket Ball [App Store] (£0.59)

Developed by TouchGrove (http://ledbasketball.com/), LED Basketball is that retro experience you’ve been waiting for. Vibrant polished UI, great gameplay and great, great price at just 0.59p.

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Hit up the comments and let us know your verdict on all of these titles!